<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by scrog:
Hi Sweet Willie,
My wife did ask to see the radar gun and the cop said he did not have to show it to her. I asked the prosecutor why the cop didn't have to show it to her and he said there was no law that said he did. I also asked about the fact that my wife wasn't on the road she was ticketed on and was told it was the cops word against her's.
We just finally decided it wasn't worth taking time off from work to go to court (I know, that's what they figure people will do). It's just an additional vacation expense I guess.
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I would suggest this to anyone who received an out of state traffic ticket. I was driving straight through from Baltimore to Chicago this Spring and got careless about my speed in Indiana. Got a ticket for 86 in a 65mph zone.
When I got home, I called the IN courthouse and asked if they had some "supervision" type program where I would plead guilty, pay a fine, but the ticket would not go on my record. The courthouse called it a deferral and set me up w/a different court date. I then called a lawyer who agreed to show up for me to obtain the deferral. Cost me around $250 total and no ticket on my record AND no increased insurance costs!!